Thesan
Thesan (Eos) , Morning, Dawn, Aurora.
In Etruscan Religion and mythology, Thesan is the Etruscan goddess of the dawn. Thesan is the Roman equivalent of Aurora. In Etruria, she received offerings together with the sun god Usil as discribed in the liber linteus.She was especially worshipped at Caere's harbour of Pyrgi, where a temple was dedicated to her and a singular series of "daybreak antefixes" was excavated.
Thesan was depicted with wings and sometimes nude, such as a clay acroterium from Astrone valley. According to scholar De Grummond: "Although Thesan is often compared with the Greek Eos and the Roman Aurora, Greek texts suggest that they understood her cult persona at Pyrgi to be rather a counterpart of Leukothea, the “White Goddess,” who had a special connection with the sea, and who in turn was assimilated to the Roman Mater Matuta, a goddess of the morning and of childbirth."
Unlike Eos in the Greek religion, Thesan is worshipped in the Etruscan religion. Her name appears on the mummy wrappings of the Zagreb mummy (Liber Linteus) and on a bronze tablet from Pyrgi.
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